Arts Bombast: Ruth Asawa
The first time I saw Ruth Asawa‘s work was about a week after I moved from New Mexico to San Francisco, in a hallway (not a gallery) at the de … Continue reading
In the Mood For… Twin Peaks, Part I: A Damn Fine Cup of Coffee
You may or may not be aware of my out-of-control infatuation with the early-’90s television series Twin Peaks. Earlier this week, I took a sort of unplanned escape to the … Continue reading
In the Mood For… Twin Peaks, Part II: Dweller on the Threshold
Friends, what follows is a photo shoot, where vanity, obsession and “for lack of a better term… magic” meet. Captured in the towns of North Bend and Snoqualmie, Washington, this … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Walter de Maria’s Lightning Field
It’s pretty deplorable: despite the fact that I LIVED in rural New Mexico, not even 100 miles north of Quemado, the entire time that I was there I never made … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Beyond Belief at CJM
When was the last time that you visited an art exhibition, and really, really gave yourself permission to experience the art (and perhaps experience transcendence) with abandon? If it’s been … Continue reading
Style Ish: Philip Colbert’s Sequined Pop Art Frocks
New goal in life: get a friend to wear this Duchamp-Fountain number below as a wedding gown, then dub myself Maid of Honor, and rock the Dali-Lobster-Telephone one. The above … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Roberta Breitmore Series
I just returned from a brilliant 5-day escape to New York City. Besides hanging out with some of my best friends in the world, eating a plethora of delicious bread-based … Continue reading
San Francisco: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
My dear friend Krissie recently attended a performance of one of her all-time favorite stories, the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, here in SF. I asked her to write … Continue reading
Film Bombast: MOCATV’s The Art of Punk
“My name is Raymond Pettibon and I designed this motherfuckin’ thing.” –Raymond Pettibon MOCATV is a contemporary art video channel hosted on Youtube, operated by (obviously) the Museum of Contemporary … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: The Hipsterization of the Contemporary Art World
Has anyone else noticed that 90% of everything in galleries and at art fairs these days look, well, the same? [David Fleck] Before I launch into a diatribe, let me … Continue reading
Ribbon Around A Bomb 